GENERAL FREMONT IN COMMAND -- MOVEMENT AGAINST
BELMONT -- BATTLE OF BELMONT -- A NARROW ES
CAPE -- AFTER THE BATTLE.
FROM the occupation of Paducah up to the early part of November nothing important occurred with the troops under my command. I was reinforced from time to time and the men were drilled and disciplined preparatory for the service which was sure to come. By the 1st of November I had not fewer than 20,000 men, most of them under good drill and ready to meet any equal body of men who, like themselves, had not yet been in an engagement. They were growing impatient at lying idle so long, almost in hearing of the guns of the enemy they had volunteered to fight against. I asked on one or two occasions to be allowed to move against Columbus. It could have been taken soon after the occupation of Paducah; but before November it was so strongly fortified that it would have required a large force and a long siege to capture it.
In the latter part of October General Fremont took the field in person and moved from Jefferson
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Publication information:
Book title: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
Volume: 1.
Contributors: Ulysses S Grant - Author.
Publisher: Charles L. Webster.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1885.
Page number: 269.
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